Alphia+Robinson


 * SUMMARY: Alphia Robinson, age 18, died on January 5, 1876 from complications of an abortion evidently perpetrated by Dr. J. F. Houser of West Branch, Iowa.**

Alphia J. Robinson, age 18, had been living with a man named Amos Kimberly for about two years in Iowa Township, Iowa. On January 5, 1876, she went up to her room "in a cheerful manner, and in apparent good health," but a few moments later her mother went up and found her dead. The coroner declared that she had died from an abortion attempted by Dr. J. F. Houser of West Branch, Iowa.

"Crooked Morals in Iowa," //The Chicago Tribune//, Feb. 17, 1876